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THE Lagos State government, has disclosed that it is taking steps to end illegal evictions of tenants, landlord harassment and arbitrary rent hikes with a new legislative proposal. The Executive Bill, titled ‘The Lagos State Tenancy and Recovery of Premises Bill 2025’, has been sent to the House of Assembly for consideration and approval. The law, if passed, is expected to reshape the rental housing market in the state, where rent increases of up to 200 per cent have become increasingly common, as well as offer clearer obligations for landlords. The proposed law follows growing complaints from residents across the state, where tenants have reported being locked out of homes, having doors broken, or being forcefully chased away during rent disputes. Under the proposed law, landlords will be legally required to obtain a court order before evicting tenants, marking a major shift in landlord-tenant relationship in Lagos. The Bill criminalises all forms of forceful eviction, intimidation, a...

By Ayo Ajigbotesho IT was pathetic and painful on Tuesday night,when a blue toyota colour car with plate number GGE148 KF veered off the road, gravely injured food vendor and killed her daughter. The  accident threw the people in Sehinde Callisto, Boladale and Church streets in Oshodi, into mourning, with some people who knew the food vendor crying and wailing. It was gathered that the accident, which happened at the intersection of Sehinde Callisto and Church Road in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State, around 5p.m., attracted sympatisers. According to an eye witness, who spoke with the Harbinger, “the girl and her mother were getting ready for evening sales at the junction when the driver of the car accidentally struck them while attempting to connect Liverpool Road enroute Oshodi-Apapa Expressway from Sehinde Callisto Street. “ The mother and daughter had just came down from the tricycle that brought them to the intersection ...

Lagos State Government has restated its determination to remove all buildings and structures erected beneath high-tension power lines across the state, warning that such encroachments pose severe safety risks to residents. Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Electronic Geographic Information System, EGIS, and Urban Development, Olajide Babatunde, gave the warning during an assessment tour of the Third Mainland Bridge corridor. Babatunde was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Gbolahan Oki; General Manager of the Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency, LASURA, Oladimeji Animashaun and senior officials of other relevant agencies.  The inspection covered areas from Oworonshoki to Adekunle and the Makoko axis of Ebute-Meta, where the team identified several shanties and illegal structures encroaching on the bridge setbacks and violate the legally prescribed 50-metre right-of-way. Babatunde said the state would no longer t...

•Order enhanced security at the borders AS bandits from the North push farther toward the fringes of the South, security anxieties have deepened across the southern corridor, stretching from the thick forests of Oke-Ogun in Oyo to the oil-rich creeks of the Niger Delta.  The bandits movement now touches strategic boundary points in Kwara, Kogi, Benue, Niger states and parts of Edo State, stirring unprecedented fear among southern communities. From Oyo’s decision to deploy traditional hunters into deep forest belts to Enugu’s adoption of drone surveillance, and from Rivers’ fortified marine security units to Ondo’s reactivation of Amotekun strike operations, southern states are no longer treating the threat as distant.  They are responding with a mix of technology, community policing, legislative reforms, inter-agency operations and, where necessary, traditional security structures that draw from native knowledge of the terrain.  Urgency  Recognising the urgency of th...

THE Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwanu Akiolu, has disclosed that the ‘Eyo Festival’ will be held in Lagos on Saturday, December 27, 2025. The event is being organised in honour of former governors of the state, Messrs Lateef Jakande and Michael Otedola, as we as late  Abibatu Mogaji. Akiolu, who spoke at a media briefing held at the Palace, Iga Iduganran, had in attendance the White Cap Chiefs. The monarch said: “Eyo is not an avenue to make money for any chief. It is our sacred heritage and must be treated with dignity, not an avenue for personal profit.” According to him, the festival, which will be held at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, will be restricted to Lagos Island, with plans to deploy 100 buses to transport people from different parts of the state to the venue.

FOLLOWING the rising wave of kidnapping in Kwara and Kogi states, Agbekoya warriors have moved to some villages in Oyo State to flush out terrorists hibernating there. Similarly, the South West Amotekun commander, Mr Adetunji Adeleye, yesterday, promised to strengthen security across the zone and its forests. Speaking after its meeting in Ibadan, the Agbekoya Farmers Association also expressed deep concern over the spate of insecurity challenges in Nigeria, particularly the recent incidents in Kwara, Kogi, Kebbi and Borno states. Agbekoya, in a statement by its State Governor and National Public Relations Officer,  Olatunji Bandele and  Olatunde Ashagidigbi respectively, denounced the series of abductions, kidnappings and killings of innocent citizens in some parts of the country. The statement reads: “To prevent the occurrence of these kinds of tragedies in Oyo State, we decided to mobilise some of our security men to some villages and communities considered as flash poi...

Badaru Abubakar THE Minister of Defence, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar has resigned his appointment with immediate effect. Abubakar, in a letter dated December 1, sent to President Bola Tinubu, said he was quitting on health grounds. A statement by the Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, last night said: “Tinubu has accepted the resignation and thanked Abubakar for his services to the nation. “President Tinubu will likely inform the Senate of Badaru’s successor later this week.” Badaru Abubakar, 63, was a two-term governor of Jigawa state from 2015 to 2023. He was appointed as a minister on August 21,  2023, by President Tinubu.   His resignation comes amid President Tinubu’s declaration of a national security emergency, with plans to elaborate on its scope in due course.   Badaru’s last public comments were in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, where he highlighted the risks of bombing bandit hideouts. He had said that some of them are located in forests that ...

Group of Norther governors *Warn region will collapse if... *Terrorists abduct nursing mother, 10 others in Kano *Panic at Abuja school as students mistake soldiers for kidnappers *Police foil planned mass kidnap attack in Abuja, kill 3 bandits *Abducted Niger schoolchildren are doing fine, will return soon - Ribadu *Tinubu must enforce emergency declaration on security — Experts Northern governors havewarned that the region on the brink of losing its future to insecurity and deepening poverty, unless leaders took urgent, decisive action. They also called for state police as a way out of the high level insecurity in the north, and asked for a 6-month ban on mining in the region. This is even as Kaduna State governor, Senator Uba Sani, urged his peers and traditional rulers to close ranks and confront the region’s growing security threats with honesty and unity. The governors spoke at a time residents of Tsamiya village in Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State weekend came under a...